4 Faux Tapered Cut Tutorials You Must Try!

I always crush on tapered cuts! Not too long ago I was rocking a tapared cut after I suffered hair damage. Now that my cut has grown out I find myself longing for the tapered look every now and then, but I’m not interested in going through with the actual cut. It’s been over a year since I’ve had short hair and I do appreciate once again many of the conveniences that longer hair offers, like puffs, roll tuck and pins and chunky twists.

In my quest for options on how I can wear my hair, tapered without actually tapering it I came across some very talented YouTubers that have demonstrated ways for me to get the look without having to shave my hair off. Sounds like a Win Win!

This tutorial requires some advanced flat twisting and braiding skills to achieve the tapered look in the back.

@askpRoy’s tutorial requires basic twisting and the use of perm rods for a shrunken tapered look.

In this tutorial, Jennifer doesn’t twist or braid at all. She pats her hair in tightly-how creative!

In this tutorial, my girl Whitney, or as you know her, Naptural85, creates a tapered bob being that her hair is so long. She uses a few hair pins and voila.

Author

Jenell B Stewart MS, the founder and editor in chief of the award winning website KinkyCurlyCoilyMe.com dedicates most of her free time educating and uplifting women with natural hair by way of her extremely popular website and YouTube channel. Jenell has been featured in Essence Magazine, Black Enterprise.com, and starred on the Dr.Oz television show as a Beauty Expert. In 2012 she was named one of Essences top Instagramers and that same year KinkyCurlyCoilyMe won an award for “Favorite Website” of the Natural Hair Community.